Gulas
Well-Known Member
I work as well on a place full of nerds and Ph.D.'s. In high school, I thought I was pretty damn inteligent. But after I started university, my skills were put to the test. Then I learned that labeling intelligence is a big waste of time, intelligence is very subjective, hard to measure. Ironically, my grades and work started to get better after I was being less arrogant. Perhaps I learned a humbling lesson."Do you hide your intelligence when you meet "normal" people?" Define "normal people." On this site, I think everyone is normal. I work at a place that is inundated with Ph.D.'s; they do train rocket scientists. I don't think they're normal.
It's so easy to try to feel superior, specially if a conversation went wrong and rationalize "Well, I'm too intelligent for him/her".
It's easy to label people, the intelligents and the dummies. Or think "Now I'm dumbing myself down because this one can't understand a thing".
And for the most of my conversations, it's about the difference of experiences rather of difference of intelligence. I would rarely talk about differential equations, brain-computer interfaces, RPG's, the von Mises criteria for static failure, or Fourier Fast Transform with people who never experienced these things. That doesn't mean they're dumb, just different of me.
I've made the mistake of judging people by their appearance, status, education. Many times my judgment was wrong, and other times some people surprised me. Many people use masks on their daily lives, so do I.
I completely agree. Although I wouldn't have agreed 1 year ago.I'm not a genius, but I'm not a moron either. However, I do not feel it necessary to act superior.